Currently, Donald Trump has 739 delegates, Ted Cruz, 466 and John Kasich, 145, according to CNN's tally. A candidate needs 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination outright. "There's no chance he can get to 1,237," veteran UVA election watcher Larry Sabato said of Cruz. "It's simply a matter of whether Trump gets to 1,237. If he does, it's over," he added.
Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics and his colleagues have mapped out a projection of the remaining primary calendar that shows Trump winning the delegates he needs to stave off a contested convention – with a whole two extra delegates to spare.
UVA’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. The University is drawing up plans to move into the facility's empty fourth floor to provide care and services to more patients and their families.
The BIG Event is the largest day of community service nationwide for college students, and Madison House, the volunteer center for UVA students,­ is organizing the local version. More than 480 students will perform acts of service on Saturday.
"People have always known that it's hard to remember the faces of strangers, and that there are problems with eyewitness memory," said UVA law professor Brandon Garrett, citing legal decisions from 50 or even 100 years ago. But a widespread push to reduce such errors actually had an opposite effect.
Corporate America was already shifting jobs to lower-wage countries, UVA economics professor John McLaren said. China's shift to a more market-driven economy drew U.S. companies looking for cheap labor to manufacture their goods, from sweatshirts to iPhones.
State religious freedom bills have made the news frequently in recent years, from the controversial passage of an Indiana law last year to one that Georgia's Republican governor refused to sign last month. Supporters of such bills could argue – as UVA law professor Douglas Laycock did last year, talking to NPR's Jennifer Ludden – that religious freedom laws have a range of applications.
"You have a very polarizing figure in Donald Trump, so you have a lot of people coming out to support him. But, you also have a lot of people coming out to vote for someone else because they don't like Trump," said Geoffrey Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics.
The "town hall" – in which a candidate typically has a one-on-one exchange with an anchor and takes questions from voters – has become an increasingly popular format on cable news networks. "I've noticed the town hall moderators are getting tougher, especially on Trump," said Larry Sabato, UVA professor of politics.
The campaigns likely will intensify their efforts in Indiana a week before the primary after vying in several contests – in New York on April 19 and other Northeastern states on April 26, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
New York and California collectively represent about 30 percent of the outstanding delegates in the Republican race, which means the results of their primaries will go a long way toward deciding whether Donald Trump will win the GOP nomination outright or be forced into a contested convention in July. “It’s a great opportunity [for Republicans] who often feel neglected to really have an important say in the process,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a nonpartisan political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics. “That’s true every election cycle in some degree, but pa...
Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroscientist at the UVA School of Medicine, commented on the research: "It is beautiful new work…it brings into light what’s happening in the early stage of the disease."
“It’s possible we’ll look back and say it was Wisconsin that changed everything,” said Larry Sabato, director at UVA’s Center for Politics. “It’s got the floor in a very messy show for a month and that gives it more influence than 10 states on Super Tuesday.”
Nitrogen is absolutely crucial to life, yet it also can choke the life out of aquatic ecosystems, destroy trees and sicken people when it shows up in excess at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong form. These losses occur on farms and in food production, sales, distribution, preparation and consumption. Or, as UVA environmental sciences professor Jim Galloway puts it, losses occur “all along the way from the field and bare soil to the sewage plant.”
Nitrogen is absolutely crucial to life, yet it also can choke the life out of aquatic ecosystems, destroy trees and sicken people when it shows up in excess at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong form. These losses occur on farms and in food production, sales, distribution, preparation and consumption. Or, as UVA environmental sciences professor Jim Galloway puts it, losses occur “all along the way from the field and bare soil to the sewage plant.”
It’s lonely at the top. Or is it? In fact, people in positions of power tend to feel less lonely, rather than more, according to new research by a team including UVA’s Eileen Y. Chou that examined how being highly placed in a social hierarchy affects loneliness.
Rewilding Europe was formed in 2011 with the goals of creating large natural habitats offering havens to endangered species and, in the case of the aurochs, mimicking the world that they thrived in. Manuel Lerdau, a UVA ecologist who studies the dynamics of large-scale wild places, questioned the viability of Rewilding Europe’s proposals.
Patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement have similar outcomes as patients undergoing conventional surgery and also experience shorter hospital stays and fewer blood transfusions, according to a UVA-led study posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
UVA researchers have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviors, using genetic engineering to create a magnetized protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance.
UVA is one of 19 colleges across the country to receive the HEARTSafe Campus designation. The designation means a person has one of the best chances for survival if their heart stops beating while at the University.